Yogic flyers propose air strike on Saddam

While we are on the subject of the EU’s Common Foreign and SecurityPolicy – or rather the lack of it – it appears that help could be at handfor those poor Union diplomats trying to work out what they are going to doabout the worsening situation in Iraq.

European Voice

2/18/98, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/12/14, 2:59 AM CET

According to Reinhard Borowitz, secretary-general of the MaharishiInternational Council of Natural Law Parties, all that’s needed to end thecurrent military stand-off is a bit of yogic flying. “Military action isnot necessary, since there is a proven means to resolve the situationimmediately. The Natural Law Party’s solution is the deployment of a fewthousand experts in the transcendental meditation and yogic flyingprogrammes of the Maharishi Mehesh Yogi,” said Borowitz recently.

Apparently, this approach would reduce tension in the region by “changingthe quality of collective consciousness”, and enveloping Saddam Hussein ina “coherent and harmonious environment”.

Whether such airborne antics by the Natural Law Party would constitute aviolation of the Iraqi no-fly zones is an issue yet to be clarified by theUnited Nations.